Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Kanji's POV
"So all our hopes are riding on Kage, huh?" I said.
"It's good to know we can rely on him." Gramps said "This has been an interesting day. Some birthday you'll be having."
"Heh. Yeah, hard to believe that it's tomorrow."
"This is so boring!" Natsu said "I want to go out but since I can't I'll just free Erza."
Huh?
"What are you talking about?"
"I'll just melt the stone off."
"WHAT~!"
"Don't touch her!"
"We won't know till we try." Natsu said getting closer.
"You'll kill her! We're finally gonna get married don't hurt her!"
"Watch where you put your hands Salamander." Gajeel joked.
"Stop Natsu!" I yelled.
*crack*
"Oh no she's breaking!"
"Erza no! I'm so sorry!" I said slamming my hand on the ground.
"Happy get the glue!"
"No we need to weld her back together." Gajeel said.
"Why does this happen to me!" I yelled.
The statue shattered and Erza came out okay.
"I feel hot. Was it you Natsu!" Erza yelled as she kicked him across the room "Are you trying to cook me!"
"You're okay!" I yelled hugging her "but how?"
"I'm not sure." Erza said "But I'd guess it's because of my right eye."
Her artificial eye! It made the stone eyes half as effective.
"Looks like the runes already added me to the counter." Erza said as the counter changed from four to five "There are four in here but who's left?"
"Kage, he's already engaged Evergreen."
The counter suddenly ticked up to six.
"It went up again." Natsu pointed out.
"It seems 'he' has decided to join us." Erza said.
"This seems beneath him but it's certainly welcome."
"Who are you talking about?" Gajeel asked.
"One of the strongest men in Fairy Tail, Mystogan." Erza said walking out the door.
"Be careful!" I yelled out.
A cracking noise was suddenly heard from the back of the guild.
Kage's POV
"Bring it on bitch!"
The air around us sparkled as the sun hit it.
Glitter?
"Fairy Bomb: Gremlin!"
I slipped into the ground and sped towards Evergreen. I jumped out of the ground and hit her with an uppercut. She flew past my punch and backed up.
"Shadow Knuckle!"
A sent a barrage of knuckles at the fairy women but those damn wings kept keeping her away from my attacks.
"Sit still so I can rip off your wings!"
I have to break those wings or I'll never hit her.
"I am the true queen of the Fairies. What fairy has no wings?"
"Snake Shadow!"
I sent two snakes at the woman and clipped one of the wings.
"You dark guild beast! Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun" Ever yelled as she hit the ground.
"Shadow Wall!" I pulled up a wall and blocked the barrage of light bullets.
She's keeping me at a distance I have to close in. I have to hurry the walls cracking.
I slipped back into the ground and dashed towards Evergreen.
"Enough tricks!" Ever yelled and shot the ground.
Despite being in the shadow I got it.
It's cause there light, they pieced my shadow.
"Shadow Knuckle!"
"Gremlin!" the dust blew away my shadows and saved Evergreen again "Leprechaun!"
One of the bullets skimmed my shoulder and another hit my leg.
Dammit I can't lose to her.
I looked to the corner of the building we were fighting on and saw a barrel in the shadows.
Maybe I can?
"Shadow Grip!" Evergreen braced herself in the front but the attack never came.
"Throw!" The hands holding the barrel threw it and it crashed into her back I ran forward and attacked again "Shadow Heel!"
"Ahh!"
"Snake Shadow!" The fangs of the shadow bit her shoulders and held her against the building.
"What holding me up against the wall so you can have your way with me. Typical of a dark guild member.
"I told you I'm not in a dark guild anymore, I'm in this guild." I said rolling up my sleeve to show her the mark on my right forearm "Since we're in the same guild I won't do anything else because I don't want to upset Master any further. Now turn the girls back."
"My eyes will let me turn them to dust form here. Don't make one more step."
Wow this is kinda sad.
A dozen shadow hands emerged and wrapped around Evergreen "If you break them I'll drag you into the shadows where you'll never see the sun again."
"What?"
"Prepare for darkness!"
"Ahh!"
"Grip!" The squeezed her shoulder and scared her half to death.
"AHH! Okay you win!" Evergreen yelled as her eyes glowed "There they're free."
"Ha! You fell for that, just so you know only I can enter the shadows I can't bring someone in with me."
"We'll that's good to know." A voice said from behind me "Line Formation!"
Where'd he come from?!
Kanji's POV
The cracking noise stopped and all the girls were freed from their stone prisons.
Kage vs Evergreen: Kage wins
The board quickly updated again and said Kage was taken out by Bickslow.
You took down one, nice job. So, what now Laxus?
Happy told the girls what was happening around town and they weren't happy about being used as bargaining chips.
"What's done is done." Gramps said "Laxus can no longer play this game without his hostages."
"Still all those people that got hurt by Freed's traps." Mira pointed out.
"Let us teach him a lesson." Bisca asked.
"Oh he'll be taught a lesson all right." Gramps mumbled.
I just don't get it, why Laxus. All this to become master. Alienating everyone won't help your cause.
"Not so fast." Natsu said "I know it was wrong to do that to the other members but I don't see the harm I finding out who's the strongest. Don't be too hard on the guy."
You can look past this that easy. Why can't I. He's my brother I should be the one who finds it easiest to forgive him. But if that's true why haven't I forgiven him for all the other stuff he's done? Am I stuck in the past?
"What's that?" Mira said as the enchantment started freaking out and popping boards up everywhere.
"Can you hear me?" the boards said in Laxus voice "Since we lost one of the rules, I'm going to put in another one." Laxus said "I've activated the Thunder Palace.
"Are you insane!" I yelled out.
That spell is a last resort meant to remove the town should a dark guild gain the upper hand in a war.
"Are you out of your mind? You'd drag innocent people into this. Ngh!" Gramps grabbed his chest and hit the ground.
"Grandpa! Mira do something!"
"I'll get his medicine." She said running off.
Not now. Why, why is everything so shitty today? Tomorrows my birthday and this is happening the day before.
"Everyone look outside!" Mira yelled.
We all headed out to the upper balcony to get a look at the situation while Mira took care of Gramps.
"What are those?"
"There thunder lacrima." I explained "They've surrounded town. We're all trapped in the Thunder Palace now."
"What happens if they go off?" Lucy asked.
"They hold enough energy to turn the whole town to a pile of ash." I told her. "I'm the one who designed it. It's an emergence defense system. Once it's on it can't be turned off only the one whom activated it can shut it down. We have one hour to stop Laxus or break all the lacrima."
"I can do it." Bisca said.
"There are a few hundred you better get to work." I told her.
Bisca pulled out a sniper rifle and shot down one of the lacrima.
The air changed.
The air around Bisca exploded into a torrent of lighting and almost killed her. I manage to grab her hand and move the energy to my own body and save her life.
"That wasn't supposed to happen." I said.
"Body Link magic?!" Cana said.
"Anyone who attacks those things is going to get hit like that!" Lucy said.
"Then if we want to save the town we have to act quickly." I said "Get out there and stop him. Freed and Bickslow are still around somewhere so be careful."
The remaining girls ran off to try and help the town and stop Laxus. The only ones left in the hall were me, Natsu, Gajeel, Mira, and Levy.
"Rah! Laxus!" I shot a bolt forward and hit the barrier "I could stop him if I could just get out of here."
"Relax." Levy said "That's an enchantment right." The boys and I shook our heads yes "Then it's writing magic I can remove it."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, just leave it to me. I'll get you three out of here in no time." Levy said running back inside to get to work.
We followed her inside and found she already had a spread of books out on the floor and was already underway in her work.
"I'm going out to look for Elfman." Mira said walking out the door.
"Hey Mira!" I yelled "Be careful"
"Don't worry I will." She said with a smile.
I need to get out there.
I took a page from Natsu's book and slammed my head into the barrier "I need to get out!"
"Hurry up!" Natsu yelled.
"Will you two relax?" Gajeel yelled "Even if we got out we don't know where to go."
I back up and thought for a second.
That's a good point. I don't even know where to start. My best bet is to find Freed or Bickslow and ask one of them.
The board dinged and showed that Lucy and Bickslow had begun fighting.
"Lucy?!"
"Be careful Lucy."
A few more minutes passed before the board said Lucy had come out the victor.
"Incredible." I remarked.
"No way! That Bunny-girl can fight?!" Gajeel yelled.
"Lucy's very strong." Natsu said.
"But she's a bunny."
The two got into an argument about a bunny and a turtle or something like that.
"That's it!" Levy yelled "I have to translate these two at different speeds." Levy scribbled a bunch of words down on a paper "I did it! Just give me a second and you'll be free to enter the battle."
My first target is Freed, if I can find him I can find Laxus.
AN
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